Career
Among her notable songs are I"d Never Forgive Myself (1953), I Tried Again/That"s What I Like (1954) and Don"t/ Baby Want You Please Come Home (1955). Although her music was once erroneously reviewed as rhythm & blues, it is considered popular music According to Frank Sinatra biographer Kitty Kelley.
Tolley had a romance with Sinatra.
Tolley toured frequently in the 1950s. In 1953 she opened at the Casa Blanca in Canton, Ohio on December 11, for three days.
Afterward she performed for two weeks at the Spa Athletic Club in Erie, Pennsylvania, beginning on December 14. Tolley appeared on the World Rally Championship-television program, The National Radio Fan Club, on July 15, 1955.
Tolley was an added attraction on a bill with Bill Haley and the Comets at the Courthouse Square Theatre in Springfield, Massachusetts, in December 1955.
